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Page 13 dan competitors failed to secure a pass in the examinations admitting them to these grades-was a mystery to him as to every one else. The mystery could not mean any apathy on the part of the Hindus to avail themselves of the opportunities given them of educating themselves to a higher standard.

Mr. Sadagopa Chari, M. A., in supporting the proposition said that the Government should be asked to throw the scholar- ships open to the Hindus as well as to the Mahomedans.

Then Mr. P. Veeraraghavalu Naidu, a non-member, being permitted by the Chairman to speak on the occasion, said: There was no necessity for asking the Government in the memorial to throw the scholarships open to the Hindus. The Government, notification published in the Jareeda a few months previously threw them open to all bona fide Hyderabadees, irrespective of caste or creed. And it was the thought that Hindu lads might compete for the scholarships as well as other religionists which led those in power to bring into existence a com- mittee to decide whether, from a religious point of view, Hindus could cross the seas-ostensibly to provide against the impression that the Government was doing anything arbitrarily without consulting the people concerned. So then, our object, in memoria- lizing the Government, should be to prevent them from being solely guided by the opinions of the orthodox men on the committee.

Then the proposition being put to the vote, was carried nem- eon. And a committee was formed of Messrs Krishna Iyengar Ramachendra Pillai, Krishnamachari and Ramachandra Laksh- mun, to draw up a memorial to the Government making mention of the points dwelt upon by the different speakers.